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Information on a!! subjects. > Address JAMES GORDON BENNETT, New York Herald, N. Y. City, I < ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. j ' Do not fail tc subscribe now for the New i j York Weekly Herald. Dec il. Ey E EIDER HAGGARD. Author cf "Colonel Qxiaritch, V. C.," "Mr Meeson?* Will," "A Tale of Three Lions," "Allan Quatermain/1 "She," "Jess," etc. SYNOPSIS CF THE STORY. This story is supposed to be founded upon a manuscript fourni in tiie papers of Allan Quater main, which were given to the author as literary executor. In it Quatennain tells the story of his marriage. CHAPTER I.-Describes Allan's first meeting, wheu a child. wira Stella Carson, at a Christinas gathering. Stella's dress caught fire and Allan extinguished the flames. Stella's mother was Spanish. anJ she eloped with a cousin, leaving Stella with her father. Squire Carson. He de? termined to leave England %a account of the dis? grace, and at about the same time Allan's mother died and Allan's father took him to South Africa, where Mr Quatermain became a missionary among the Kafiirs. When Allan was 20 his father CHAPTER II.-Allan sold the effects and decided to goon a journey of tradeand adventure. Among his men ?as a KafTir named ladaba-zimbi. a witch doctor Between him and another witch doctor there had tn o years before been a lightning con? test, which resulted in the death of his contestant CHAPTER ITL-Details the start of the expedi? tion. Quatennain describes his first elephant hunt. CHAPTER IV.-Quatermain discovered a large body of Zulus, and was surprised by two of their scouts. Acting upon the impulse of the moment, he shot both o. them and retreated. The Zulus had been following a party of Dutch Boeis. con? sisting of seventeen or eighteen men. their women and children, and a large number of cattle, with which they were removing to the north. For safety's sake the cattle and some of the women and children were sent away, while Quatennain, the witch doctor and some of the Boers remained. The next morning, by a ruse, Quatennain and Indaba-zimbi were captured by the Zulus. CHAPTER V.-Quatermain discovered that Inda? ba-zimbi had betrayed him into the hands of the Zulus, wh;> at first offered bim no hann. The camp of the Boers was attacked and destroyed. One little child only was saved alive and Quater tnain preserved her by fighting a duel with and killing a Zulu warrior. The witch doctor had said that Quatennain was a spirit. The Zulus deter mined to kill him. but were prevented by Inda ba. who pretended himself to kid Quatennain and then bring him to life again. This frightened the Zulus, and Indalia and Quatermain, with the child, made their escape. CHAPTER TI.-Describes the manner of escape of Quatermain with the witch doctor and Tota, the child. Inda ba said "Go nonh," prophesying that friends would be found there. Quatermain obeyed, though against his judgment. They crossed a broad desert, where there was no wa? ter, and at its end thry became unconscious. When they recovered, they were being cared for by Stella Carson, whose lifo Quatermain saved when a child. and who was now a beautiful young woman. Since early childhood she had li red in the wilds of Africa with her father, never having seen but one other Englishman. CHAPTER VII.-Stella was accompanied by a woman called Hendrika, who was captured by baboons when a child and rescued by Stella's father. Hendrika and Indaba quarreled, and Hendrika objected to Quatennain's being taken to Stella's home, but was overruled. The home of Mr. Carson, who was sick at this time, was a marvel of white marble buildings, built like Zulu huts, only much larger. No one knew who built them; Carson found them ready to his hand when he settled there CEAPTE:: VTII is devoted to a description of Mr. Carson's place. Ile had a thousand natives with him, plante 1 coffee, oranges, etc., and had edu? cated his daughter, though she had never left tiie vicin.ty. Old mines were near, and Stella showed them to Quatermain. when a rather alarming encounter with baboons, who swarmed round about, occurred. Hendrika quelled the disturb ance, and laclaba warned Quatermain of her, saying, "She is jealous of Stella, 'the Star,' and may do her hana if she becomes too much attached U) you." CHAPTER IX.-Describes the lovemaking of Quatermain and Ste! a Hendrika became wildly jealous of Quatermain. and threatened him with i vii if he took Stella a wey. Car-son sanctioned the marriage and declared his end to be near. CHAPTER X.-Hendrika attempted to murder Quatermain in his sleeps but was foiled by Indaba. The maniate t'*>k place in full view of the na? tives, Mr. Carson officiating. Hendrika's deeds were told, and she was sent into the mountains, though Indaba and the natives urged that she be killed. She promised Quatermain that she had not yet done with him. CHAPTER XI. WONDER ii many married couples are quite as happy as we found ourselves. Cynics, a grow? ing class, declare that few illusions can survive a h o n e y m o on. Well, ? do not know about it. for I only married once, and can but speak from un? limited experi? ence. But cer? tainly our illusion, or rather the great truth of which it is the shadow, did sur? vive, as to this day it survives in ruy heart. But complete happiness is not allowed in this world even for an hour. Three days after our wedding Mr. Car? son had a stroke. It had been long im? pending, now it fell. We came into the center hut to dinner and found him ly? ing speechless. At ?rst I thought that he was dying, but this was not so. Oe the contrary, within four days he recovered his speech and some power of movement. But he never recovered his memory, though he still knew Stella, and sometimes myself. Curiously enough he remembered little Tota best of all three, though occasionally he thought that she was his own daughter in her ? childhood, and would ask her where her j mother was. This state of affairs lasted I for some seven months. The old man j gradually grew weaker, but he did not die. Of course his condition quite pre? cluded the idea of our leaving Babyan Kraal till all was over. This was the more distressing to me because I had a nervous presentiment that Stella was in? curring danger by staying there, and also because the state of her health ren? dered it desirable that we should reach a civilized region as soon as possible. Ac length tho end came very suddenly. We were sitting one evening by Mr. Carson's bedside in his hut. when to our astonishment he sat up and sj>oke. "I hear you." ho said. "Yes, yes, I forgive you. Poor woman! you too have suffered." and he fell l>ack dead. I have little doubt that he was address? ing his lost wife, some vision of whom had flashed across his dying senses. Stella, of course, was overwhelmed with grief at her loss. Till 1 came her father had been her sole companion, and there? fore, as may f>e imagined, the tie be? tween them was much closer than is usual even in the case of father and daughter. So deeply did she mourn that I began to fear for the effect upon her health. Nor ?vere we the only ones to grieve; ali the natives on (he settlement called Mr. Carson "father," n:-.d as a father they lamented him. The air re? sounded with tiie wailing of women, j and tiie men went about with bowed bea.ls, saying that "the sun bad set in the heavens, now only the S!ar (Stella) remained." Indaba-zimbi alone did not mourn. He said that it was best that the Inkoos should die, for what was life ! worth when one lay like a log?-more i ? i tiver, that it won d have been well f?>rall ! if he had died so mer. On tho following day we buried him in the little graveyard near the water? fall. It was a sad business and Stella cried very much, in spite of all I coul do to comfort her. That night, as I sat outside the hu smoking-for the weather was hot an Stella was lying down inside-oki Indabc zimbi came up, saluted and squatted a my feet. '.What is it. Indaba-zimbi?" I said. "This, Macumazahn. When are yo going to trek towards the coast?" "I don't know," I answered. "Thc Sta is not flt to travel now; we must wai awhile." "No, Macumazahn. you must not wail you must go, and the Star must take he chance. She is strong. It is nothing All will be well." "Why do you say so? Why must w go?" "For this reason. Macumazahn," an< he looked cautiously round and spok> low. "The baboons have come bac JV it thousands. All the mountain is full o them." "I did not know that thoy had gone.' I said. "Yes,"' he answered, "they went afte: the marriage, all but one or two: nov they are back, all the baboons in th< world, I think. I saw a whole clif black with thom." "Is that all?" I said, for I saw that lu had something behind. "I am not afrait of a pack of baboons." "No, Macumazahn, it is not all. Th? babyan-frau. Hendrika, is with them." Now, nothing had been heard or seer of Hendrika since her expulsion, anc though at first she and her threats nae haunted me somewhat, by degrees sin had to a great extent passed out of mj mind, which was fully preoccupied wit! Stella and my father-in-law's illness. J started violently. "How do you know thisT I asked. "I know it because I saw her, Macu mazahn. She is disguised, she is dressed up in baboon skins, and her face is stain ed dark. But though she was a lon^ way off I knew her by her size, and ] saw the white flesh of her arm when thc skins slipped aside. She has come back, Macumazahn, with all thc baboons ir the world, and she has come back to dc evil. Now do you understand why you should trek?" "Yes," I said, "though I don't see how she and the baboons can harm us. 1 think that it will be better to go. If nec? essary we can camp the wagons some? where fora while on the journey. Heark? en, Indaba-zimbi: say nothing of this to the Star: I will not have her frightened. And hearken again. Speak to the head men, and see that watchers are set all around the huts and gardens, and kept there night and day. To-morrow we will get the wagons ready, and the next day we will trek." Ile nodded his white lock and went to do my bidding, leaving me not a little disturbed-unreasonably so, indeed. It was a strange story. That this woman had the power of conversing with ba? boons I knew. That was not so very wonderful, seeing that the Bushmen claim to be able to do the same thing, and she had bern nunn red by them. But that she had been able to muster them, and by the strength of her human will and intelligence muster them in order to forward her ends of revenge, seemed .J me so incredible that after reflection my fears grew light. Still I determined to trek. So I went into Stella, and without say? ing a word to her of the baboon story, told her I had been thinking matters over, and had come to the conclusion that it was our duty to follow her father's instructions to the letter, and leave Ban? yan Kraals at once. Into all our talk 1 need not enter, but the end of it was that she agreed with me. and declared that she could quite well manage the journey. Nothing happened to disturb us that night, and on the following morning I was up early making preparations. The despair of tho |>eople when they learned that we were going to leave them was something quite pitiable. I could only console them by declaring that we were but on a journey, and would return the following year. "They had lived in the shadow of her father, who was dead," they declared; "ever since they were little they had lived in his shadow. He had received them when they were outcasts and wan? derers without a mat to lie on. or a blank? et to cover them, and they had grown fat in his shadow. Then he had died, and the Star, their father's daughter, had married mc. Macumazahn, and they had believed that I should take their father's place, and let them live tn my shadow. What should they do when there was no one to protect them? The tribes were kept from attacking them by fear of the whiteman. If he went, they wonk! be eaten up." and so on. Alas! there was but too much foundation for their fears. I returned to the huts at mid-day to get some dinner. Stella said that she was going to pack during the afternoon, so 1 did not think it necessary to caution her about going out alone, as I did not wish to allude to the subject of Hendrika and the baboons unless 1 was obliged to. I told her, however, that I would come back to help her as soon as I could get away. Then I went down to the na- j tive kraals to sort out such cattle as had ' belonged to Mr. Carson from those which ! belonged to the Kaffirs, for I proposed to take them with us. It was a large herd, and the business t<x>k an incalculable time. At length, a little before sun? down, I gave it up. and leaving I miaba zimbi to finish the job, got on my horse an"! rode homewards. Arriving, I gave the horse to one of the stable boys, ami went into the cen? tral hut. There was no sign of St?-lla. though the things she ha?! been packing iay about the floor, i passed first into our sleeping but, thence one by one into all theothers. but still saw no sign of her Then i went <?ut. and calling to a Kaffir in the garden asked him if he had seen his mistress, i He answered "yes." Ile had seen her carrying flowers walking towards tho graveyard, holding the little while girl -my daughter-as be called her, by the hand, when the sun stood "there," and he pointed to a spot i:i Hie horizon wln-re it would have been about an hour ami a half before. "The two di^s were with them." he added. I turned and ran towards til?' graveyard, which was about a quarter of annie from the huts. Ol eourse there was no reason to be anxious -evidently she had gone to I ri v the flow; .s on her rather's gm ve. Ano* yet I was anxious. When I ;:.>{ near the grav^vard I met one of the natives, who. Itv my orders, had l-een set round th" krials to watch the place, and noticed that he was rub? bing his eyes and yawuing; Clearly he had been asleep. I asked him if Ix? had seen his mistress, and he answered that he liad not, which under the circum? stances was not wonderful Without stopping to reproach him. I ordere?! the man to follow me. and went on to the graveyard. There, on Mr. (..'arson's grave, lay the drooping flowers which Stella had been carrying, ami there in the fresh mold was th*' spoor of Tola's veldschoon, or hule slipper. But where j wt re thc\ ? ' I ran from the graveyard and calle aloud at the top of my voice, but no ar swercame. Meanwhile the native wa more profitably engaged in tracing thei spoor. Ho followed it for about a bur dred yards till be came to a clump c mimosa bush tba* was situated betwee the stream and the ancient marble quat ries just above the waterfall, and at th mouth of the ravine. Hore ho stopped and I heard him give a startled cry. rushed to the spot, passed through th trees, and saw this. The little ope: space in the center of the glade had heel the scene of a struggle. There, in th soft earth, were the marks of three hu man feet-two shod, one naked-Stella's Tota's and Hendrika's. Nor was this ail There, close by,lay the fragments of th< two dogs-they were nothing more-am one baboon, not yet quite dead, whicl had been bitten in the throat by tb dogs. All round us was the spoor o numberless baboons. The full horror o what had happened flashed into my mind My wife and Tota had been carried of by the baboons. As yet they liad no been killed, for if so their remains wouh have been found with those of the dogs They had been carried oil. The brutes acting under the direction of the woman monkey. Hendrika, had dragged then away to some secret den, there to kee] them till they died-or kid them! For a moment I literally staggered be neath the terror of the shock. Then '. roused myself from my despair. I bad* the native run and alarm the people a the kraals, telling them to come armed and bring me guns and ammunition. H< went like the wind, and 1 turned to fbi low the spoor. For a few yards it was plain enough-Stella had been dragger along. I could see where her heels hac struck the ground; thc child had. 1 pre sumed, been carried-at ieast there were no marks of her feet. At the water's edge the spoor vanished. The water was shallow, and they had gone along in it or at least Hendrika and her victims had, in order to obliterate the trail. 1 could see where a moss grown stone hac l>een freshly turned over in the watei bed. I ran along the bank some way up the ravine, in the vain hope of catching a sight of them. Presently I heard a bark in the cliffs above me; it was an? swered by another, and then I saw that scores of baboons were hidden about among the rocks on either side, and were slowly swinging themselves down to bar the path. To go on unarmed as I waa would be useless. I should only be torn to pieces as the dogs had been. So I turned and fled back toward the huts. As I drew near I could see that my mes? senger had roused the settlement, for natives with spears and kerries in their hands were running up towards the kraals. When I reached the hut 1 met edd Indaba-zimbi, who wore a very seri? ous face. "So the evil has fallen, Macumazahn," he saith "It has fallen." I answered. "Keep a good heart, Macumazahn," he said again. "She is not dead, nor is the little maid, and before they die we shall lind them. Remember this. Hendrika loves her. She will not harm her or al? low the babyans to harm her. She will trv to hide her awav from vou-that is all." "Pray God that we may find her," I groaned. "The light is going fast." "The moon rises in three hours." he answered. "We will search by moon? light. It is useless to start now; see. the sun sinks. Let us get the men together, eat and make things ready. Ilamba gachle. Hasten slowly, Macuniazahn." As there was no help I took his advice. I could eat no food, but 1 packed some up to take with us, and made ready ropes and a rough kind of litter. If we found them they ?vould scarcely l>ocb!e to walk. Ah! if we found them! How slowly the time passed! It seemed hours before the moon rose. But at last it did rise. Then we started. In all we were al>out a hundred men, but we only mustered live guns between us. my elephant roer and four that had belonged to Mr. Car? son. CHAPTER XII. JrE gained JlL ; ES^-?* ECL AT TIL0 TORN ?lakl^^^S^"v fragments of the ffljffl??'"*2?&Vfra_) dog8? and at tiie vPv^/' . lenee, and I heard felai" / them swearing to ?$WS ',( ?"*h other that ?V whether the Star ^ Jived or died they t \ would not rest till / ^ they had exterm? inated every baboon on Babyan's peak. I echoed the oath, and, as shall be seen, we kept it. We started on along the stream, fol? lowing the spoor of the baboons as we best could. But the stream left no spoor, tho bani, rocky hanks but little. Srill we wandered on. AH night we wandered through the lonely moonlit val? leys, startling the silence into a thousand echoes with our cries. But no answer ! came to them. In vain our eyes searched the side-, of precipices formed of water riven rocks fantastically piled one upon j another; in vain we searched through j endless dells and fern clad crannies. I There was nothing to be found. How ! could we expect to find two human ; beings hidden away in the recesses of ! this vast stretch of mountain ground, which no man yet had ever fully ex? plored? They were lost, and in all hu? man probability lost for ever. To and fro we wandered hopelessly, till at last dawn found us footsore and ! weary nearly at the spot whence we bad started. We sat down waiting for the sun to rise, and the men atc of such j food as they bad brought willi them, and ' sent to thc kraals for more. I sat upon a stone with a breaking I heart. I cannot describe my feelings, j Let the reader put himself in my posi- ; lion and perhaps ho may get some idea of them. Near mo was old Indaba- j /.imbi, who sat staring straight before him as though lie were looking into space, and biking-note of what w ent on ! there. An idea struck me. This man bad some occult power. Several times'j during.onr adventures he bad prophe- ! sied, and in every case his prophecies had proved tru \ He it was who. when we escaped from the Zulu luipi, had . told me to steer north, bi cause there we ? should lind the place of a white man j who lived under the shadow of a great peak thal was. full of baboons. Perhaps , he could help in this extremity-at any j rate it was worth trying. | "Indaba zbubi," I said, "you say that you e:m send your spirit through the i doors of ^paco and see what we cannot yee. At the least 1 know 111:?t yon can j do strange things. Can you not help j mc now? If you can, and will save he I will give you half thc cattle that v have here." "? never said anything of the sor Macumazahn," he answered. "I < things. 1 do not talk about them. Neith do I seek reward for what I do like common witch doctor. It is well th; you have asked me to use my wisdot Macumazahn, for I should not haveust it again without being asked-no, n< even for the .?ake of the Star and yoursel whom I love, for if sonny spirit wou have been angry. In the other matten had a part, for my life was concerned J well as yours; but in this matter I hai no part, and therefore I might not u? my wisdom unless you thought well I call upon my spirit. However, it woul have been no good to ask me before, f< I have only just found the herb I want and he produced a handful of leaves < a plant that was unfamiliar to me. had prickly leaves, shaped very muc like those of the common English netti? "Now, Macumazahn," he went ot "bid the men leave us alone, and thc follow me presently to the little glac down there by the water." I did so. When I reached the glade found Indaba-zimbi kindling a small iii under the shadow of a treeby the edgec the water. "Sit there, Macumazahn," he sai( pointing to a stone near the fire, "and d not be surprised or frightened at an] thing you see. If you move or call ot wc shall learn nothing." I sat down and watched. When tb fire was alight and burning brightly, th old fellow stripped himself stark nakec and, going to the foot of the pool, dippe himself in the water. Then lie cam back shivering with the cold, and, lear ing over thc little fire, thrust leave of the plant I have mentioned into hi mont ii and began to chew them, muttei ing as he chewed. Most of the remainin, leaves he threw onto the fire. A dens smoke rose from them, but he held hi heail in this smoke and drew it down int his lungs till I saw that he was exhibitin; every sign of suffocation. The veins ii his throat and chest swelled, he gaspei loudly, and his eyes, from which tear were streaming, seemed as though the; were going to start from his head. Pres ently he fell over on his side, and la] senseless. I was terribly alarmed, an( my first impulse was to run to his assist ance, but fortunately I remembered hi caution and sat quiet. Indaba-zimbi lay on the ground like ? person quite dead. His limbs had all th< utter relaxation nf death. Dut as ] watched I saw them begin to stiffen, ex actly as though rigor mortis had set in Then, to my astonishment, I perceived them once more relax, and this time there appeared upon Iiis chest the stair of decomposition. It spread and spread in three minutes the man, to all appear? ance, was a livid corpse. I sat amazed watching this uncanny 6?ght, and wondering if any further nat? ural process was about to be enacted. Perhaps Indaba-zimbi was going to fall to dust before my eyes. As I watched I observed that the discoloration was be? ginning to fade. First it vanished from the extremities, then from the larger limbs, and lastly from the trunk. Then in turn came the third stage of relaxa? tion, the second stage of stiffness or rigor, and the first stage of after-death collapse. When all these had rapidly succeeded each other, Indaba-zimbi quietly woke up. I was too astonished to speak; I simply looked at him with my mouth open. "Well, Macumazahn," he said, putting his head on one side like a bird and nod? ding his white lock in a comical fashion, "it is all right; I have seen her." "Seen who?" I said. "Thc Star, your wife, and the little maid. Tiiey are much frightened, but unharmed. The babyan-frau watches them. She is mad. but the baboons obey her and do not hurt them. The Star was sleeping from weariness, so I whispered in her ear and told her not to be fright? ened, for you wouid soon rescue her, and that meanwhile she must seem to be pleased to have Hendrika near her." "You whispered in her ear?" I said. "How could you whisper in her ear?" "Dali! Macumazahn. How could I seem to die and go rotten before your eyes? You don't know, do you? Well, I will tell you one thing. I had to die to pass the doors of space, a3 you call them. I had to H ra .v all the healthy strength and life from my body in order to gather power to speak with the Star. It was a dangerous business, Macumazahn, for if I had let tilings go a little further they must have stopped so. and there would have been an end of Indaba-zimbi. Ah. you white men, you know so much that you think you know everything. But you don't! You are always staring at the clouds and can't see the things that lie at your feet. You hardly believe nie now, do you, Macumazahn? Well, I will show you. Have you anything on you that the Star has touched or worn?" I thought for a moment, and said tha1 I had a lock of her hair in my pocket? book. He told me to give it to him. I did so. Going to the tire, he lit the lock of hair in the Hame, and let it burn to ashes, which he caught in his left hand. These ashes he mixed up in a paste with the juice of one of the leaves of the plant I have spoken of. "Now, Macumazahn, shut your eyes," he said. I ?lid so, and he rubbed his pasteen my eyelids. At lirst it burnt me, then my head swam strangely. Presently this ef? fect passed off, and my brain was per? fectly clear again, but I could not feel the ground with thy feet. Indaba-zimbi lcd meto the side of the stream. Beneath us was a pool of beautifully clear water. "Look into the {>ool. Macumazahn," said Indaba-zimld. and his voice sounded hollow and far away in my ears. 1 looked. The water grew dark: it cleared, and in it was a picture. 1 saw a cave with a fire burning in it. Against the wall ol' the cave rested St? ?la. Her dress was torn almost oil her, she looked dreadfully pale and weary, and \wr eye? lids were red as though with weeping. But she slept, and 1 could almost think that I saw her lips shape my name iii lier sleep. Close io her. her head upon Stella's breast, was little Tota; she bad a skin thrown over IHM- to keep out the night cold. The child was awake, and appeared lo be m oa ni ng w it h fear. By the lire, and in such a position that the ! light fell full upon her face, and en? gaged in cooking something in a rough pot shaped from wood, sal the baboon woman. Hendrika. She was clothed in balloon s>kms. and her face had been rublied with some dark stain, which was, however, wealing off. In the intervals of her cooking site ] would turn on Stella her w iid eyes, in which glared visible madness, with an expression of tenderness that amounted to worship. Then she would stare al : tiie poor child and gnash lier teeth as' though with hate. Clearly she was jeal- j ons of it. Hound the entrance arch ot' j the cave peeped and peered the heads j of ninny baboons. Presently Hendrika I made-a sign to one of them; apparently she did not speak, or rather grunt, i order not to wake Stella. The brui hopped forward, and she gare it a se< ond rude wooden pot which was lyin by her. It took it and went. The la: thing that I saw, as the vision slowl vanished from the pool, was the dil shadow of the baboon returning wit the pot full of water. Presently everything had gone, ceased to feel strange. There beneat me was the pool, and at my side sioo Indaba-zimbi, smiling. "You have seen things," he said. "I have," I answered, and made n further remark on the matter. Whr was there to say? "Do you know th path to the cave?" I added. He nodded his head. "I did not follow it all just now, because it winds," li said. "Dut I know it. We shall war the ropes." "Then let us le starting; the men hav eaten." Ho nodded his head again, and, goin to the men, I told them to make readj adding that Indaba-zimbi knew the wa} They said that was all right; if Indabc zimbi had "smelt her out" they shoul soon find the Star. So we started chea fully enough, and my spirits were s much improved that I was able to eat boiled mealie cob or two as we walked. Wre went up the valley, following th course of the stream for about a mik then Indaba-zimbi made a sudden tur: to the right along another kloof, of whici there were countless numbers in thc bas of the great hill. On we went through kloof after kloof Indaba-zimbi, who led us, was never a a loss; he turned up gulleys and strucl across necks of hills with the certain^ of a hound on a hot scent. At length after about three hours' march, we cam? to a big silent valley on the northen slope of the great peak. On one s! : ? o this valley was a series of stony kop; ies on the other rose a sheer wall of i\>ck We marched along the wall for a dis tance of some two miles. Then sudden h Indaba-zimbi halted. "There is the place," he said, pointing to an opening in the cliff. This opening was about forty feet from the ground and ellipse shaped. It cannot have beer more than twenty feet high by ten wide and was partially hidden by ferns anc bushes that grew about it in the surface of the cliff. Keen as my eyes were, ] doubt if I should ever have noticed it, for there were many such cracks and crannies in the rocky face of the great mountain. We drew near and looked carefully at the place. The first thing I noticed was that the rock, which was not quite per? pendicular, had been worn by the contin? ual passage of baboons: the second, that something white was hanging on a bush near the top of the ascent. It was a pocket-handkerchief. Now there was no more doubt about the matter. With a beating heart I be? gan the ascent. For the first twenty feet .it was comparatively easy, for the rock shelved; the next ten feet was very diffi? cult, but still possible to an active man, and I achieved it, followed by Indaba zimbi. But the last twelve or fifteen feet could only be scaled by throwing a rope over the trunk of a stunted tree, which grew at the bottom of the oper.ir.g. This we accomplished with some trouble, and the rest was easy. A foot or two above my head the handker? chief fluttered in the wind. Hanging to the rope, I grasped it. It was my wife's. As I did so I noticed the face of a baboon peering at me over the edge of +he cleft, the first baboon we lu?d oeen that morn? ing. The brute gave a bark and van? ished. Thrusting the handkerchief into my breast, I set my feet against the cliff and scrambled up as hard as I could go. I knew that we had no time to lose, for the babco* would quickly alarm the others. I gained the cleft. It was a mere arched passage cut by water, end? ing in a gulley, which led to a wide open space of some sort. I looked through the passage and saw that the gulley was black with baboons. On they came by the hundred. I unslung my elephant gun from my shoulders, and waited, calling to the men below to come up with all possible speed. The brutes streamed on down tho gloomy gulf to? wards me, barking, grunting and show? ing their huge teeth. I waited till they were within fifteen yards. Then I fired the elephant gun, which was loaded with slugs, right into thc thick of them. In that narrow place the report echoed like a cannon shot, but its sound was quickly swallowed in the volley of pierc? ing human sounding groans ami screams that followed. The charge of hea"? y slugs had plowed through the number of the balloons, of which at least a dozen lay dead or dying in the 'passage. For a mo? ment they hesitated, then ihey came on again wit h a hideous clamor. Fortunate? ly by this time indaba-zimbi, who also had a gun, was standing by my side, oth? erwise I should have been torn to pieces before I could reload. He fired both bar? rels into them, anil again checked the rush. But they came on again, and not? withstanding the appearance of two na lives wii'n guns, which they let olf with ; more or less success, we should ?lave been i overwhelmed by the great and ferocious ? apes had 1 not by this time succeeded in j reloading the elephant gun. When they j were right on to us I fired, with even ! more deadly effect than before, for at j that distance every slug told on theil j long line. The howls and screams of rage j and fury were now something ineonceiv- j able. One might have thought that we I were doing battle with a host of de- j mons; indeed rn that light-for the overhanging areli of rock made it very dark-the gnarling snouts and somher glowing eyes of the apes looked like those ?d' devils as they arc repre? sented by monkish fancy. But tho last shot was too much for them; they with? drew, dragging some of their wounded with them, and thus gave us time to get our men up the cliff. In a few minutes all were there, and we advanced down the passage, which presently opened into ? a rocky gulley with shelving sides. This j gulley had a water way at tho bottom cf j it: it was about a hundred yards Jong, j and the slopes on either side were topped . by precipitous cliffs. I looked at these! slopes: they literally swarmed willi ba ! boons, grunting, barking, screaming. I and beating their breasts with their long j arms in fury. 1 looked up the waterway; ? along.it. ftccompanied by a mob. or. as i it were, a guard tu baboons, rame Hen drika. her longhair living, madness writ- j ten on her face, and in her arms v as th? i seilst less form of little Tola. She saw ns. and a foam of rage burst j from her lips. She screamed aloud. To j me the sound was a mere inarticulate cry, hut ( lie baboons clearly understood it. for they began to roll rocks down on ? to us. One bow hier leaped past mc and j struck (?own a KafTir behind; another 1 fell from thc roof <.(' the arch on to a j nian's head and kided him. Indaba-zimbi ! lifted his gun to shoot Hendrika; 1 j knocked it up so that the shot wont over ! her. crying that h.? would kill the child. j Then I shouted io the men to open out | ?nd form a line from ride t > sid* of the shelving jrulley. Furious at the loss their two comrades, thev obeyed n and keeping in ll ie water war mvsc together with Indaba-zimbi "and" t other guns. I gave the word to charge, Then the real battle began. It ia di: cult to say who fought the more fierce the natives Or the baboons. The Kafi charged along the slopes, and as th came, encouraged by the screams Hendrika, who rushed to and fro ho! ing the wretched Toto before her as shield, the apes bounded at them in fui Scores were killed by the assegais a: many more fell beneath our gun sho but still they came on. Nor did we scathless. Occasionally a man wou slip, or be pulled over m the grip of baboon. Then the others would fii: themselves upon him like dogs on a n and worry him to death. We lost fi men in this way, and I mvself receiv a bite through the fleshy part of the le arm, but fortunately a" native near r assegaied the animal before I was pull down. At length, and ail of a sudden, t baboons yave up. A panic seemed seize them. Not withstanding the cri of Hendrika they thought no more fight, but only o?" escape; some even d not attempt to get away from the ass gais of the Kafiirs, they simplv hid tin horrible faces in their paws, and, moa ing piteously, waited to be slain. Hendrika saw that the battle was io< Dropping the child from her anns, ? rushed straight at us. a very picture horrible insanity. I lifted n?v gun, b could not bear to shoot. After all si was but a mad thing, half ape, ha woman. So I sprang to one side, ar she landed full on Indaba-zimbi, knoc ing him down. But she did not stay do any more. Wailing terrible, si rushed down the gulley and through tl arch, followed by many of the survivii baboons, and vanished" frem our sight. [TO BB CO5TI>TKD J The Charleston, Southern ac Northern Railroad. Will this railroad, about which t have heard so much of late, and for tl aid of which Darlington voted ?80,0( io bonds on last Friday, be construct) atlast? This is the most vital issi at stake in our little town at the pre ent moment, and upon its solution mut depends-the intimate connection* Eastern South Carolina, increased rat road facilities comprehending redu tions of freight rates for Darliogtot and the opening of new fields f( Charleston's commerce. If coostructee this road will bc of great mutual bene! to Darlington, Bennettsville an Charleston. Darlington bas had bot Northern' and Southern connection fe many years, it is true, but only av? the road of the Atlantic Coast Line We have been heretofore effectual! bottled up by that system, and as consequence have been compelled t pay the highest rates on all freights rc ceived and shipped at this point. Whs we need and need most is rail compe tition. Make this a competing poiD for two different railroad systems, an< we shall soon have great reduction made in the freight rates on merchan dise, cotton and other produce. Wit! the Northern, Southern and Westen connections, which we shall then have we shall be blessed with as fine railroad facilities as can be found in the State and by that means, we may safely say our population will be increased, th? value of real estate enhanced, and nev capital be brought in our midst. The advantages of this road to Ben nettsville, and Marlboro County gener ally, are manifold. That County, un questionably one of the richest anc uio?t prosperous io the State, is cut of from the rest of the State by the greai Pee Dee Uiver, which forms a natura! boundary, and for that reason, being isolated from us and having a Northern outlet by railroad, she affiliates and trades almost exclusively with North Carolina. At present she cannot ship her cotton to Charleston, or buy ber merchandise and fertilizers there, ex? cept the scant quantity which can be transported by water. When the new road is built, giving her a splendid Southern outlet, her trade will be turn? ed iu its natural channels in South Car? olina, and to Charleston. And it is really to Charleston that the greatest advantages of this road will certainly accrue. Some few years ago Darlington did a very heavy business in Charleston, buying largely and ship? ping very Dearly all of her cotton there This custom is now being lost by Charleston, and one of the principal reasons ia the high rates charged on freight by the Atlantic Coast Line. One needs but to compare a few figures in thi* respect to see how great the advantage of a competing line would be : Freight on cotton from darlington to Charles ton, 35 cents per 100 ?bs. ; freight on cotton from Darlington to Norfolk, 47 ceuts per 100 lbs ; freight on barrel Pour from Charleston to Darlington, o8i cents; freight on barrel flour from Richmond to Darlington. 50 cents; freight on barrel flour from Baltimore to Darlington. 58 cents; freight on ke^ nails from Charleston to Darling ton, 25 cents; freight on keg nails from Richmond to Darlington, ol? cents. lt will be seen by a comparison of these figures that the rates are utterly out of proportion to the distance of shipment, and iu every case operate to the disadvantage of Charleston. Darlington County makes about 40, ?00 bale? of cotton every year, and yet we may safely say that 20 per cent would cover the uumber of bales that are shipped to Charleston. Charleston is our natural market, and our people want to ship their cotton and buy their goods there. The principal thing that is needed to accomplish this end is rail? road competition. By this road also Charleston would extend the arms of her coaimerco into now and rieh terri? tory-Marlboro County. We have al? ready shown that this county is cut off from the rest of the State by the Great Pee Dee Uiver, and that for that reason she cannot now trade in Charleston. Remore this impediment, cr rather bridge ir by a railroad, and her trade, than which there is none better or more profitable, would How by natural chan? nels to the city hy the sea. It would also enahle one of tho finest seoiioos of the State of North Carolina to do busi? ness with Charleston. Marlboro Coun? ty raises over 30,000 bales of cotton every year, and she uses over 8.000 tons of fertilizers. To say nothing of the cotton that, had she railroad facili lies, it is reasonable to suppose she would ship to Charleston, we ihink we | may safely say that Charleston could i sell her (5,000 tons of fertilizers. Put- j ting the profit eu that at $3 a too, j Charleston would realize in one year, | from this source alone, $18,060. Now to build the road, it is neces? sary that Darlington and Ben nette viller raise ?111,000. \Ve can command all that money except ?20,000, and to* that extent our people have asked as? sistance of Charleston. It ?8 bat a pitiful sum to ask of a city of the wealth and commercial prominence of Charleston, a city with which the peo? ple of Darlington have traded so large? ly and, too, for a purpose that will certainly inure to her benefit. Pro? minent men in Charleston bate asked? us repeatedly. "Why don't yooT people' do business with as now, we lile* them* and would bc glad to have their busi? ness ?" We have herein shown the' reason, and how it can be remedied. We do not ask much, bat if the busi? ness men of Charleston ire' really friendly to us, and desire our basinets, they shoald *bow it here. Some of the merchants of Charleston haver already comprehended the situation, and have given subscriptions to oar* committee; and by doing so they hav6' benefitted themselves and every mer? chant and farmer in Darlington and* Marlboro coanties. Our people should remember this, and recollect idio ar? their friends, when they buy their* merchandise and fertilizers. Recipro? city is one of the fundamental laws of our social system.-Darlington Neice. The Difference The writer spent the part of a da/ last week in the growing little city of Sumter. The time be had there was* limited and we did not have an opportun nitv to see much of the city. We had the pleasure however of meeting two* former Newberrians, the Rev. E. T. Hodges, the paster of the Methodist church at that place, and his sister. Miss Helen Hodges. They are welF pleased with Sumter, and the city seem? to agree with them. It was only about a year ago that Newberry was discussing the advisa? bility and the practicability of putting in an electric light plant for the lights ing of our streets and dwef?ings* About the same time the matter of an electric light plant for Sumter was be? ing discussed by her citizens. The two* towns are about the same sizo*. The difference in regard to this en-* terpri8e is that Sumter rs righted by electricity, has ber plant built and in fine trim, and every one is delighted. Newberry has almost forgottoo that such a thing was ever talked here. The little talk that we had IB dew? berry about electric lights was thought" to be "much ado about nothing/7 and so the matter ended and 8t*l? stands, and the old kerosene lamp post still makes our streets gloomy* Sumter is getting to be (tuite' a rail? road centre also. It is a very pretty little city. \Ve regret that We did not have more time to spend there -Neve* berry Herald and News. For human food olive and cotton-seed oils are far superior to lard, or to any animal fat. Olive oil bas held that rank in the estimation of scientists and medical men from the earliest period of recorded history. It is only at tefe* years that analysis by chemists. ?xperK ments in diet by eminent physicians/ and practical use by skillful house? keepers have combined to* de m ernst ra te* that in every respect and for ?ll uses the oil of the cotton-seed is equal fo that of the olive This fact once established, a market will be made for pure cotton' seed oil that will be co-extensive with that now occupied by olive ort. lt will, indeed, become its competitor in all parts of the world. The Manufacv turera' Record, of Baltimore, believing that the time has come wheo the South should make a vigorous move rn behalf of cotton-seed oil, instead of simply act? ing on the defensive in the repeated assaults made rn Cbmgress on Che punV ty of this oil, after an elaborate investi? gation, bas accumulated a ram of in* formation, and purposes to publish next week the first of a series of articles that will cover the whole subject, fn these it will be shown beyond controversy or shadow or doubt that cotton-seed oil is1 the best salad o:l to the world, and that it shou?d oe put upon the market on its merits, bearing its own uarae, and its cxellence for all the culinary purposes be persistently set forth until it receives popular approval and enters into as uni? versal cou>umption as butter or lard. These articles, which wu. run through several months, will prove of immense* value to the whole South, by greatly widening the market for cotton-seed oil/ An exchange gives the following good advice, which ?ll should keep. .'The local paper should be in every home. No children will grow up igno* raut who can be taught to appreciate* the home papers. It is the stepping stone to intelligence in all those mat? ters not to be learned rn books. Give your children a foreign paper whicb contains not one word about any person1 or place they ever 6aw or perhaps ever heard of and how can you expect them to be interested. But let then* have the home papers and read of the people with'whom they are familiar and soon an interest is awakened whicb in creases with every arrival of the1 local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed and those children will hecoa? intelligent men and women-a credit to their ancestors-strong ia theil* knowledge of the world as it is to-day. 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